Italian and Russian music accompany this 4-minute series of Christmas, 2011 photos from Menton, France, Ventimiglia and Turin, Italy, and Monaco. The Tarantella comes first, the Volga Boatmen song second. I don't know if a person can dance the Tarantella on a Volga boat.
Many writers lived along the Mediterranean Coast, Graeme Greene, Katherine Mansfield, and Samuel Becket among them. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky visited. Charles Dickens came by boat from Marseille before the railroad came in the 1860s. Increased traffic brought tourists, who have since made Monaco a fancy place. In Monaco, we saw a Russian-language tour guide leading a group.
In Menton, France, we stayed in an apartment owned by a Ukrainian woman, who was at her New York City address. This photo show includes Menton's Russian church; hence the Russian music that ends the show.
The train from Ventimiglia goes through the Alps, in several tunnels up to several kilometres long, to the plains south of Turin. The last, longest tunnel began in the green coastal climate and ended in snowy Italy.
The return train ride from Menton, through Ventimiglia, to Turin, 250 kilometres away, cost less than 30 Euros (Cdn$40).
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